The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-01-11
WELLsBURG,
The Postofiice-Giass Workers and Works
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Other Notes.
Delegate I. Il. Duval will leave THU
morning for Charleston. q
Protrsated meetings in the two NJ stho,
dist churches will DO continued thi:
week. saf,;i ~ y.
Hardly sufficient gas to boil an egg a.
the experience OF gas consumers here yes
te,day. f,'%s-g
Part Of thu old fair ground property
will be laid oil in lots aud sold. They vii
nuke excellent building sites.
Az the spring election approaches csn.
didatcs are beginning to look around tu
see about how their fences lay.
Fsrrying at this point across to Brilliant
is a difficult task. A fss OF twenty-five
cents is charged for the round trip, aud
passengers think 1t reasonable. i, .. p
George Letzkue, whose demise has been
noticed, was buried Sunday afternoon
His funeral was largely attended; mum
Der Of Wheeling people were in attend
ance. MAX III.
State Senator Somlnerville and villa lei
Tor Charleston yesterday morning. Since
the dissolution OF the law firm OF Somuer.
vile & Braddock, it 10 Understood thu,
sommerville will permanently locate a,
the Capital Of the State. s. z,
James NJ. Rodgers has purchased The
lot adjoining bis large dry goods estab
lishment. Mr.. Rodgers is the most enter
prising merchant Of the town, and will no
doubt erect upon this lot building thai
will be credit to the town. 75 o.
Some fifteen young men who we're am.
ployed in the Hazel Glass Works here
when it was in operation, left Monday
morning for Little Washington to accept
positions in the new glass works Of Tall!
man & Brady just completed there.
The new Riverside Glass Works build.
ingis almost completed; pot-setting will
take place this week and glass will be
turned out on or about the first Of Feb.
ruary. These works wore DESTROYED by
fire last September, but have been rebuilt
this time perfectly fre-proof. This estab.
lishment employs more than q hundred
persons, and it's destruction has been
keenly felt in a pecuaiary way by the
merchants. The new building affords in.
creased facilities for the Manufacture Of
glass, and is a grand improvement. over
the old concern. & 81. &:
Wellsburg democracy is all "brokeu' up''
over tho appointment OF Mr.. Joseph R.
Naylor as Postmaster, some OF the party
swearing that he is not entitled to it and
that the appointment ia an outrage upon
the more ultra Democratic aspirana for
the Office; while some OF the more intel.
ligent and liberal Democrats concede tbs
appointment to be the best that could be
made in the party up here. Those who
take retrospective survey OF the matter
are enthusiastically opposed to that por:
ton Of the party who are doing the most
Kicking" In Mr.. MAYORS favor it can
be said that he is q gentleman and a
scholar; that he is one Of the old land.
marks Of Brooke county, (hsving tempo.
rarily been away from town awhile); tia.
he came back to Wellsburg in. the DAYS
when her. working man needed work and
erected houses, expanding bis money and
the appearance OF the town
that he taught achool here loug before tho
free school system was thought Of, and
was the instructor OF the best busizess
men OF to-day, and is citizen OF character
against whom naught eau BE- epoken,
While the ball for spell may gather IN
condemnation OF the appointment, Mr..
MAYORS good qualities will also magnify
as suitable man for the position. Z =